A continuation of events surrounding the drug war and related social issues of Baja California and Mexico. Keeping an eye on Seig Heil Trump. We are still trying to restore all blogs from 2006 which were hacked by Linton Robinson and his team, famous for supporting the Baja Trump Towers on one of his real estate sites. Highlights of Paris-Simone's favorite music !!

It has been over a day now...but I'm still breaking into tears when I hear her.

One of my faves - a little background:

From Wiki:
""Mary Don't You Weep" (alternately titled "O Mary Don't You Weep", "Oh Mary, Don't You Weep, Don't You Mourn", or variations thereof) is a Spiritual that originates from before the American Civil War[1] – thus it is what scholars call a "slave song," "a label that describes their origins among the enslaved," and it contains "coded messages of hope and resistance."[2]

It is one of the most important of Negro spirituals.[1]
The song tells the Biblical story of Mary of Bethany and her distraught pleas to Jesus to raise her brother Lazarus from the dead.[1] Other narratives relate to The Exodus and the Passage of the Red Sea, with the chorus proclaiming Pharaoh's army got drown-ded!, and to God's rainbow covenant to Noah after the Great Flood.[1]

With liberation thus one of its themes, the song again become popular during the Civil Rights Movement.[1] Additionally, a song that explicitly chronicles the victories of the Civil Rights Movement, "If You Miss Me from the Back of the Bus", written by Charles Neblett of The Freedom Singers, was sung to this tune and became one of the most well-known songs of that movement.[3]"

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Courtesy New York Times

Update/edit 08/18/18:

Here is a wow outstanding review which will make you smile and even jump of "Amazing Grace" and "Mary Don't You Weep" from Wesley Morris of the New York Times. Within the review is a link to the still not released film-documentary by Sydney Pollack of the event in Los Angeles - see if you can catch Mick Jagger getting down in the front row.

Update/edit 08/20: Many of you will remember back to 1969-1970 when the Board of Regents of the University of California fired/banned (twice !) Angela Davis under the thumb of Ronald Reagan. San Diego was never quite the same after that - it would never develop into another radical Berkeley or Santa Cruz town, it would just about always remain a conservative Military town, the right had a tight grip on everything San Diego, and the developers completely ruined it. Although Ms. Davis moved on and actually made several comebacks at UCSD much later, there's more to the story:

Here is Democracy Now's coverage of the Aretha-Angela Davis connection, full interviews and videos: (sorry I'm late on this)

Tuesday, September 8, 2015

I'm in an weird and awkward position as an American living here - I cannot criticize the Mexican government. But for the past few days I have been sick to my stomach, distressed, disgusted, dismayed, disturbed, dumbfounded and absolutely chilled to the bone over the findings and "true history" of the PGR in the case of the 43 missing students of Ayotzinapa, and then the CIDH report which discredited the PGR report along with experts such as Jose Torero of the University of Queensland, Australia who said:

"...there is no evidence to support the hypothesis generated based on evidence that 43 bodies were cremated in the municipal Cocula dump."

And Jose Torero is just one of many experts who dismiss the PGR's findings as you probably already know.

So, here are the links - the first one has links within to articles from the Washington Post, The New York Times, El Pais, Deutsche Welle, Pagina 12 and BBC Mundo's coverage of the PGR report and the CIDH's findings. I felt that BBC Mundo's report was the best so far:

Go here for all of the latest reports on both the PGR Report on Ayotzinapa and the CIDH Report on Ayotzinapa along with many videos and interviews - and just in case that link won't come up, google in: http://www.aristeguinoticias.com/tag/ayotzinapa/